How dare you raise that abomination of “coffee” to this honourable Australian’s name.

Because a world where people are firing guns at each other all the time is INSANE, regardless of the context. Most of the developed world has figured this out.

Fuck off with the big pharma apologetics.

Boo hoo the corporation got millions in taxpayer money to develop a vaccine and now they have to profit off of it. I feel so bad for them.

This is subtle astroturfing.

Normalisation in culture has effects on how people behave in the real world. Look at Japan’s sexualization of women and minors, and how they have huge problems with sexual assault. It’s not about whether or not real children are getting hurt, it’s about whether it’s morally right or wrong. And as a society, we’ve decided that CP is very wrong as a moral concept.

They had that before but it kept getting vandalized

Pessimism is so addictive. I’ve struggled with it a ton throughout my life.

I get your statement but it’s really overly violent, and honestly sounds kind of libertarian. More guns & more violence really will not solve anything. If you get violent all you do is justify violent means for your oppressors. In this day and age, there’s no winning a fight of violence against the government and groups you disagree with. There’s far better alternatives that we have. The benefit of capitalism is that it means the only fucking thing that works against the power structure is to scare them from losing control of their capital. I guarantee en-mass “voting with your wallet”, and literal voting, will have a much better effect than arming up.

Also, you’re free to call Nazis, Nazis. Nobody is stopping you.

Pessimism literally helps nobody, it just makes people more depressed and less likely to do anything about a bad situation. Don’t forget that last election had one of the highest young voter turnouts ever recorded, and was by far a huge swing to liberal. Since then the Republican party hasn’t even been close to as organised as they were during 2016 and 2020.

Change can and will happen. It already is, albeit slowly and with bumps along the road, just like any progression in society.

This comment is straight fire, no cap

Yep, forums don’t grow overnight! We’ll get there someday.

I get that people could be more curious about their cars, but hiding an emergency release like some kind of hidden book on Hogwarts that you have to yank on seems like a dumb idea. Car doors have established design language, and if you break that design language it has to be pretty fucking obvious how to do the action your users were trained to do.

A very good explanation. Thanks!

1. White noise podcasts are usually an hour or more of literal white noise.

2. Many people have been using Spotify for podcasts since they were introduced to the platform in 2015. The app has features specific to podcasts, and why wouldn’t you want all your audio entertainment in one place?

Also just people initially drawn in by fomo but unable to purge their Reddit addiction (me)

And remind ourselves that it find very easily happen to the fediverse! All it takes is mass defederation, some vulnerability, anything ego driven… humans still run this platform and it wouldn’t take much to bring it down.

What if we had a community standing metric that flips only between “good” and “bad.”

You get “bad standing” if the majority of your contributions in the last 6 months have a majority of downvotes than upvotes, but it resets after 6 months.

Everyone defaults to “good standing”.

This serves the purpose of a metric to filter out trolls or bad-faith actors, whilst making “karma farming” pointless.

We already have existing anti-bot measures in the world that don’t involve writing a lame sentence. Also, it’s very easy to spoof an introductory sentence. You could train a fairly small language model to do so.